Lifeboat



J. E. WYSE.

LIFEBOAT. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 31, I921.

Patented Nov. 7, 1922.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

J. E. WYSE.

LIFEBOAT, APPLICATION FILED JAN. 31, 1921.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Patented Nov. 7, 1922..

Patented Nov. 7, 1922.

ame S AYES JAMES E. NYSE, OF GREAT CROSBY, ENGLAND.

LIFEBOAT.

Application filed January 31, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES EDWARD WVYsn, a subject of the King ofEngland, residing at Great Crosby, in the county of Lancaster, England,have invented new and useful Improvements in and Connected withLifeboats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to ships life boats for saving life at sea,more especially in cases of wrecks of vessels, and also the launching ofsame.

The life boat will be provided with a deck at the ends, with hatches init, both fore and aft, fitted with hinged hatch doors or covers, andalso between the ends; the hatches being for getting into and out of theboat, and manipulating it at the two ends. The boat may be similarlyformed and. constructed at both ends and adapted to receive a rudder;and the bow and stern are elevated and formed somewhat after thewhale-boat type of bow, and closed, the object of which is to aifordlifting power, and for prevention of the boat diving into the sea, andgenerally providing buoyancy forward and aft for the purpose hereinafterexplained, and be self righting.

Along the deck, say along the centre of same fore and aft a tabernaclemast would be fitted and normally stowed on the deck, and inside theboat under the covers is formed a cockpit for housing the passengerswhen the covers are in place, exit being had by way of the hatchways ateach end.

The deck covering the well or body of the boat may be held down inposition by lushings or screw devices from the thwarts.

The mode of launching the boats consists in mounting same on wheeledcradles running on parts disposed transversely across the deck of aship, and which will be nor mally held in position by moorings fittedwith a slip hook or other readily disengag ing device, which if desiredmay be adapted to be operated in any known suitable way from within theboat, by the controllers at the ends, or from outside, so that when itis desired to free the boat it can be at once effected.

The launching of the boat is effected by gravity, namely, when the shiphas rolled on. one side, the holding means are let go or released, andthen the cradle with the boat will run down across the deck and throughthe momentum of travel the boat will pro- Serial No. 141,517.

ject itself into the sea at an angle; the end of the boat being of theform described in striking the water, it will produce a lifting effectabove referred to, so that it will not dive deep down into the sea; andbeing enclosed the passengers or others are prevented from getting wetand the boat gen erally protected from the sea.

All the appliances or utensils necessary for life boats may be used andsuitably disposed in the boat.

The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1is a side elevation showing the boat and trolley; Figure 2 is a plan,and Figure 3 a cross section. v

In the drawings, 1 is the temporary deck, consisting of a plurality ofseparate covers for the well or body of the boat, resting on thebulwarks 2 at one end, and at the other on a central longitudinal member3, and they are held down in position by means of battons 4 which areremovable, but are held down in position by lashings 4* to the thwarts 5of the boat; 6 are the decks of the buoyancy chambers 7 at each end ofthe boat, which are raised as shown, and constructed similarly to thoseof self righting life boats, so that the boat is self righting.

8 are the hatches or cook pits at each end of the boatprovided in thedeck portions 9, extendin down from the decks 6, to the level of tiegunnels 2 and the deck or covers 1; and 10 are the hinged doors orcovers for the hatches or cock pits. Thus when the doors 10 are closedand the deck or covers 'I are on, the boat is completelv closed ordecked. A

The hatches ()r cock pits are for the [HIV-- Doses hcrei nabo \"edescribed.

The cock pits 8 have floors ll for those in charge of the boat to standupon.

Each end of the boat is provided with a metal keel member 12, a member13 in line with the upper part of the stem and stern of the boat, and astrut 14: between the stem and stern, and the meeting points of the bars12 and 13; and a rudder pintle 15 projects up from the angle of thesemembers 12, 13, 141, as shown, and the lower eye 16 of the rudder 17fits over the pintle.

The rudder yoke 17 is operated by a yoke lever 18 on a pivot 19 justnear the cock pits 8, the yokes 17 and 18 being connected by lines 20.

In the case of a boat being launched from the boat deck transversely onrails in the manner described, when the ship has a list to one side, arudder would be preferably shipped at both ends.

The boat in the case shown is provided with two tabernacle masts 21pivoted at 22 to the socket standards 23, which extend down to thebottom oi the boat.

VJ hen the boat is adapted to be launched by gravity over the side ofthe ship, it is supported upon a wheeled cradleor trolley 25, the boatitself may be held by moorings 2% as shown; and when these moorings arereleased the trolley with the boat on it, is free to run to the side ofthe ship according to the list, and when it is overboard the cradle canfree itself from the boat as it is freely supported by checks 26 of thecradle.

When the ship boat is launched with its two rudders, one of them can beremoved by a suitable tackle, according to which direction the vessel isto be sailed,

l/Vhat is claimed is 1- A life boat of double ended form having anexaggerated sheer, buoyancy chambers formed in each end portion, the topof said chambers being formed in a raised deck portion, the portionbetween said buoyancy chambers forming a cockpit, a central longitudinalbeam extending across the cockpit in the plane or the gunwales, thwartsextending transversely of the cockpit, a plurality of sectional deckforming covers for the cockpit adapted to seat on the longitudinal beamand the gunwales, means for removably lashing the covers to the thwarts,a slanting deck portion connecting the raised deck with the deck coversat each end of the cockpit, a hatchway formed in the slanting deckportion communicating with the cockpit when the covers are in place, andhatch covers secured to the slanting deck portion for closing thehatchway, the stems of said boat being formed to have a rudder shippedat each end.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES E. WYSE.

lVitnesses CLIFFORD Fnnnaanm Boy'roN, BARBARA JAQUES.

